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SUBMITTER: Shannon MM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7432742 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Shannon Megan M MM Clougherty Jane E JE McCarthy Clare C Elovitz Michal A MA Nguemeni Tiako Max Jordan MJ Melly Steven J SJ Burris Heather H HH
International journal of environmental research and public health 20200803 15
Stress has been shown to adversely affect pregnancy outcomes. Neighborhood crime rates may serve as one publicly available social determinant of health for pregnancy studies that use registry or electronic health record datasets in which individual-level stress data are not available. We sought to determine whether neighborhood violent crime incidents were associated with measured perceived stress in a largely minority, urban pregnancy cohort. We performed a secondary analysis of the 1309 Philad ...[more]